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Tuesday 7 October 2014
Boko Haram crisis has claimed 11,000 lives in Nigeria – Report
No fewer than 11,000 people have been killed since the Boko
Haram sect unleashed its attacks on Nigeria, in 2007, the
Nigeria Social Violence Dataset has said in a report.
According to the reports, the rate of casualties, internal
displacement, social disruption and government failure are
stirring a widespread crisis, which spilled over the borders of
neighbouring states such as Niger, Cameroon and Chad.
The latests dataset compiled at the Johns Hopkins University
School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), showed
that the Boko Haram-related onsluaght is the most
challanging conflict that Nigeria has confronted in recent
times.
The report said that since 1998, at least 29,600 Nigerians
have been killed in more than 2,300 incidents, reflecting a
wide range of ethnic, religious, political and economic
tensions across large portions of the country.
“The conflict is rapidly intensifying. We estimate that 7,000
people died in incidents related to the insurgency between
July 2013 and June 2014, compared with fewer than 1,900 in
the preceding year. These deaths account for more than a
quarter of all the recorded deaths in the past 15 years.
“Since January, more than 5,000 people have died, making
the past eight months almost as deadly as the preceding five
years”, it said.
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